Canaanimys
Name:
Canaanimys
(Canaan mouse).
Phonetic: Ca-naan-em-iss.
Named By: Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Laurent
Marivaux, Darin A. Croft, Guillaume Billet, Morgan Ganer�d,
Carlos Jaramillo, Thomas Martin, Ma�va J. Orliac, Julia
Tejada, Ali J. Altamirano, Francis Duranthon, Gr�gory Fanjat,
Sonia Rousse & Rodolfo Salas Gismondi - 2012.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Rodentia,
Hystricomorpha, Hystricognathi, Caviomorpha.
Species: C. maquiensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore?
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Peru, Loreto - Yahuarango
Formation.
Time period: Late Lutetian of the Eocene.
Fossil representation: Teeth.
Canaanimys is one of the earliest known occurrences of the Caviomorpha, a group of rodent mammals that is best known today for including chinchillas and guinea pigs. Another genus from the same formation and named in the same year as Canaanimys is Cachiyacuy.
Further reading
- Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and
timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography - Proceedings of the
Royal Society B 279 (1732): 1319–1326 - Pierre-Olivier
Antoine, Laurent Marivaux, Darin A. Croft, Guillaume Billet,
Morgan Ganer�d, Carlos Jaramillo, Thomas Martin, Ma�va J.
Orliac, Julia Tejada, Ali J. Altamirano, Francis Duranthon,
Gr�gory Fanjat, Sonia Rousse & Rodolfo Salas Gismondi -
2012.
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